Category Archives: Valve of the Week

You made it to energy week! So, let’s get right down to putting all the hard work from the previous three weeks together. WEEK FOUR – Energy Know when to bend and when to hold firm! This week we will put it all together and ask our students to customize the pose to best fit…

Welcome back to Try This! At Yoga 216, we teach a different asana each month, and a different element or alignment focus each week. This is the basis for our INfrastructure Asana through Anatomy posts: we’re sharing our teaching method to help you learn more about the ins and outs of how the asana come…

Welcome to Try This! At Yoga 216, we teach a different asana each month, and a different element or alignment focus each week. This is the basis for our INfrastructure Asana through Anatomy posts: we’re sharing our teaching method to help you learn more about the ins and outs of how the asana come together…

Welcome to Try This! At Yoga 216, we teach a different asana each month, and a different element or alignment focus each week. This is the basis for our INfrastructure Asana through Anatomy posts: we’re sharing our teaching method to help you learn more about the ins and outs of how the asana come together…

Ok yogi’s it’s time to lift off!! For the past two weeks we have laid a clear foundation for viparita karani mudra (VKM, half shoulderstand). This week, on that firm ground, we will add a challenging inversion. Unique to this inversion is the extension of spine and shoulders we are asked to maintain while flexing…

Raise your hand if you sat in a chair today. Seems like a silly question doesn’t it?! But the truth is in the timeline of our evolution, it’s only in the immediate past that we have made a habit of sitting SOOOOOO much every day. All of that sitting, now combined with pervasive computer and…

Why we’re turning upside down October is a unique month, a lil scary even some might say 😉 because with this is the month it all begins… The holidaze is upon us! To help us through this bustling time, we have chosen a pose called viparita karani. Practicing this shape for six months, according to…

If you have been following along with our monthly focus (our INfrastructure) at the studio (and we know you have! :)), then you know this month we started investigating a new spiritual text together, the Bhagavad Gita. This month we are discussing chapter 1. (Want to join our Gita convo? Click here.) Chapter 1 introduces…

Find your way back to step one After a relationship ends, or a big vacation, or a big fight, how do you come back? Every transition is the end of something. And the end usually means going back to the drawing board again, in some fashion or another. This week as we explore the qualities…

It’s official! Fall is in full swing here in NYC. School is back in session, four day weekends are a thing of the past, and fashion week walks our streets. No matter where you are experiencing this vata season, you may notice that while your calendar has made the full transition off the beach and…